How Long to Read William Harnett’s Curious Objects

How Long Does it Take to Read William Harnett’s Curious Objects?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 35 minutes to read William Harnett’s Curious Objects by Nika Elder

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Admired for his trompe l’oeil style, American painter William Harnett (1848–1892) was as intellectually ambitious as he was technically skilled. The first scholarly monograph on the artist, William Harnett’s Curious Objects details Harnett’s career-long effort to position still life as a serious art. Nika Elder elevates the significance of Harnett’s academic training and questions his apparent turn away from it. Reading his still lifes in relation to wartime visual culture, literary realism, museum display, and industrial design, she shows how Harnett experimented with inanimate objects and pictorial techniques to represent the human condition without depicting the human body. His paintings illustrate late nineteenth-century American material culture, but they also represent Reconstruction, interiority, death and life, and the imagination. By engaging such lofty themes, Harnett reimagined history painting for the modern era. His work thus locates Gilded Age art and culture in the long shadow of the Civil War and its politics.

How long is William Harnett’s Curious Objects?

William Harnett’s Curious Objects by Nika Elder is 213 pages long, and a total of 53,889 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read William Harnett’s Curious Objects Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 54 minutes to read William Harnett’s Curious Objects aloud.

What Reading Level is William Harnett’s Curious Objects?

William Harnett’s Curious Objects is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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